David wants to find out how much information about him is just hanging around in the world. He leaves his pregnant wife (with her consent, thankfully) and hires two private detectives to hunt him down. We follow David in his escape from the world and the detectives across Europe intermixed with flashbacks from before his vanishing act, where we see how much information every single institution has on him and the rest of his family. In the beginning, one gets a creepy feeling that companies and institutions and the government keep all sorts of records, and that it's just too easily available for "the wrong people" to get their hands on. As the movie nears its middle, it becomes apparent that the detectives are not relying on all this available technology, but on basic, nose-to-the-grindstone, garbage-digging, surveillance detective work. The end is rather unsurprising, but what is mentionable is the gradual paranoia that engulfs David. Even when he is hiding in a ruin in a field miles from nowhere and hundreds of miles from civilization, he thinks they're right around the corner. It gives a good insight into what people on the run must be feeling. All in all a good "documentary", but just not that gripping.
Review of Erasing David
